Technical Programme Manager – Distribution

Category: Information Technology

Location: Kraków, Województwo małopolskie, Poland

Poland


Technical Programme Manager – Distribution

Kraków, Województwo małopolskie, Poland

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Company Description

Tesco is a leading multinational retailer, with more than 336 000 colleagues.

Our software is used by millions of people across several countries every day. Whether it’s the tills and websites our customers use, or the systems our colleagues and partners use, you’ll play your part in keeping it running like a well-oiled machine. And when a business problem pops up? You and the creative minds in our team will be challenged to solve it.

As Tech Hub we cooperate within the group of Tesco Technology Hubs located in the UK, Poland, Hungary, and India.

What our colleagues like the most at Tesco:

  • We develop our own products
  • We make an impact; large scale of operation
  • Accountability and respect are given to us
  • We cooperate and support each other
  • There are great colleagues who are divided into small teams here
  • We can develop and learn new things

Additional Information

Salary:

UoP 23 000 - 32 000 PLN gross/month

B2B 26 000 - 36 000 PLN net/month

Benefits

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you choose to join our business, we will provide you with (for all):

  • Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities
  • MacBook as your tool for work
  • Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight and O’reily
  • Referral Bonus
  • Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office

Benefits for colleagues on employment of contract only:

  • Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life
  • Up to 20% yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance
  • Private healthcare (LuxMed)
  • Cafeteria & Multisport
  • Supporting those, who are not yet eligible for full holiday entitlement, by expanding their pool from 20 to 25 days
  • Relocation Help
  • Heightened income costs (KUP)

If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.

Job Description

This job requires to be based in/close to Kraków. We currently work in a hybrid model and meet in our office 3 days a week.

Tesco Distribution is at the forefront of innovation, driving efficiency and excellence in our world-class distribution centres. We are committed to leveraging cutting-edge automation solutions and spearheading digital transformation to ensure our supply chain remains robust, agile, and future-ready.

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Technical Programme Manager to join our team. In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to manage complex programmes that integrate advanced automation technologies and digital solutions across our distribution network. Your expertise will be pivotal in transforming our operations, enhancing productivity, and delivering exceptional value to our customers.

The Role – Technical Programme Manager

Technical Programme Managers (TPMs) deliver complex, cross-functional technology programmes that support colleagues and help serve our customers better. They work collaboratively, influence Product, Engineering and business colleagues and lead the programme to deliver value quickly and often.

Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:

  • Deliver programmes with business and/or technical risks
  • Optimise or use a standard programme delivery methodology for delivering programme goals (e.g. agile, waterfall, iterative)
  • Bring together, coordinate and energise virtual technology teams to deliver programme goals
  • Create and track a plan to deliver the programme goals, including the technical implementation plan
  • Understand trade-offs and resulting impacts; make impacts visible to Product, Infrastructure or Engineering for the right decision to be made
  • Managing dependencies, delivery timelines and implementations plans, using my knowledge of technical architecture
  • Appreciating and responding to delivery challenges, using my knowledge of engineering best practices and/or infrastructure implementations
  • Understand technology concepts, grasp new ones quickly and appreciate their implications on delivery
  • Effectively manage major incidents, ensuring stakeholders are updated with the right information to drive the correct decisions
  • Build positive relationships with suppliers & external stakeholders to deliver software or professional services
  • Coach peers and other roles, teaching where required, on methodologies and programme management tools
  • This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.

Qualifications

Key Skills and Experience

You’ll need to have:

  • A proven accomplished record of delivering technology and/or infrastructure; having done so across multiple teams in multiple geographies, including 3rd party vendors
  • Experience of building credible relationships and influencing management and leadership teams
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills – you must be able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.
  • The ability to influence without authority.

Personal

  • Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter 
  • Demonstrate resilience during change and continue delivery

Unsure if you fit all the criteria? Apply and give us the chance to evaluate your potential – you could be the perfect fit!

 

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